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AD Bulk User Tool 0.4 has been released. This is a small Windows utility for doing bulk add/deletes of users in a Microsoft Active Directory.

Changes since 0.3:

• Rewrite using Windows.Forms

Downloads: .msi (Installer) | .zip (Source)

Directory Analysis Tool 0.0.2 has been ported to Windows. It requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0.

Downloads: dat-0.0.2.msi

Sussen 0.27 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems. Changes since 0.26:

• agent: Don’t crash if no definitions are specified
• oval: Added definitions for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and Fedora Core 5
• oval: Check datatypes for all test entity objects
• oval: Improved accuracy when checking versions and evr_strings
• oval: Added 12 units tests
• oval: Collect network interface information (windows)
• oval: Create Native class for P/Invoke methods (windows)
• oval: Implemented access token, audit event policy, interface, group, port, process and volume tests (windows)

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 5) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .ebuild (Gentoo) | .msi (Windows)

Sussen 0.26 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems. Changes since 0.25:

• agent: Added support for remote repositories
• applet: Use same remote repository code as agent
• misc: Build with/without GNOME components (–enable-gnome[=yes/no])
• misc: Code cleanup
• oval: Don’t record items that where not found in system characteristics
• oval: Write messages as oval-sc:message in system characteristics
• oval: Include directives in results document
• oval: Fixed formatting errors in results_to_html.xsl
• oval: Implemented lockout policy, password policy and user tests
• oval: Minor documentation updates

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 5) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .ebuild (Gentoo) | .msi (Windows)

Sussen 0.25 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems. Changes since 0.24:

• applet: Show entry to get filename if no definitions can be found
• misc: Switch to gmcs compiler (C# 2.0)
• misc: Install XML files into pkgdatadir (eg. /usr/share/sussen)
• misc: Code cleanup
• oval: Added support for object sets
• oval: Record all collected items from DataCollector
• oval: Added better error descriptions to test suite
• oval: Compare full file path in FileCrawler
• oval: Fixed logic error in TestAnalyzer.CompareData ()
• oval: Fixed bug in support code that missed last byte of MAC address

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 5) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .ebuild (Gentoo) | .msi (Windows)

System Integrity Checker 0.0.1 has been released. SIC is used to make sure that no unauthorized changes have been made to your computer systems.

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 5) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .ebuild (Gentoo) | .exe (Windows)

Microsoft is telling people to Get ready for Windows Vista. I thought I’d see how ‘ready’ my Win64 box was.

Doesn’t look like Microsoft is ready.